Tenure and Continuing Status Clause Samples

Tenure and Continuing Status. The Employer may request the Court to excuse a Member from jury duty or subpoenaed service on grounds relating to the Employer’s operational requirements. DEFERRED SALARY LEAVE (back)

Tenure and Continuing Status i. No member of the bargaining unit may apply for tenure or continuing status prior to their second year of service at Rider University. The process of evaluation must be initiated no later than the beginning of the faculty member’s sixth year of service. ii. Applications for tenure or continuing status prior to the sixth year of full- time teaching at the college level shall not prejudice the application. iii. Candidates who have spent periods of time on professional or personal leaves of absence from Rider University shall not have such years counted in computing years of teaching service at the University. In the computation of the number of years of teaching service for this Article, time on leave shall not be credited toward years of teaching service. However, such period of time on leave shall not interrupt the computation of consecutive years of teaching service for purposes of this Article. iv. Rider University recognizes that members of the faculty must balance the many priorities of their careers in academia with their personal circumstances and needs. In particular, the demands of caring for a child in the first year of life and/or the medical needs of a seriously ill spouse, domestic partner, parent, or child may seriously affect the time and energy that a faculty member can devote to their professional responsibilities during the tenure probationary period. In recognition of these demands, a faculty member shall automatically be granted, upon written notice to the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇’▇ office, an exclusion of one year from the countable years of service that constitute that individual’s tenure or continuing status probationary period under the following circumstances: -- the bargaining unit member is acting as the primary or co-care-giving parent during a newborn’s, adopted, or ▇▇▇▇▇▇ child’s first year in the household; or --the bargaining unit member is attending to the medical needs of a spouse, domestic partner (as defined in Article XXXIV), parent, son, daughter, or any person qualifying as a dependent, who has had a serious health condition as defined by the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993. Such written notice should be given as soon as possible, but must be made within six (6) months of the onset of event (e.g., childbirth, adoption, illness) which constitutes the reason for the exclusion and prior to the beginning of the academic year in which the bargaining unit member would otherwise be required to stand for promotion or tenure. No more tha...